brioux.tv: the podcast
Hosted by veteran TV columnist Bill Brioux. Each week, join in on an outspoken conversation with the actors, executives, and insiders that make the television industry pop. In each edition, Bill invites his guests to talk business, give up some great stories, and make it personal. Plus laughs.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 51 minutes
- Episodes
- 209
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
More Fun for All Ages with Frank Santopadre: Pt. 2
If you've already listened to Part 1 of my conversation with writer-producer-podcaster Frank Santopadre, you just know there was more to explore. This is the second half of our terrifi…
Fun for All Ages host Frank Santopadre
If you are a fan of comedy, film, television, movies, music, or even Bazooka Joe bubble gum jokes, join me this week in conversation with Frank Santopadre.
For over eight years and 600 …
FROM THE VAULT: 3 TV stars from the '60s Dawn Wells, Bob May and Monty Hall
I went into the vault this week to create a 3-Pack of favourite TV stars from the '60s. Two are from interviews conducted in 1997 at a Hollywood Collectors autograph show.
First up is Da…
Ed Sullivan doc producer Margo Precht Speciale
Back in the 1950s and '60s, every Sunday night, families would gather around their living room TV and watch The Ed Sullivan Show.
The variety hour ran 23 seasons, ending 54 years ago in …
Do not overlook Jennie Bovard
Meet the star of the new series Pretty Blind. As described in her AMI-tv bio, Jennie Bovard is a running, beer-drinking, thirtysomething with albinism. She loves making people laugh and…
Spend Canada Day with Jonathan Torrens
Here is why Jonathan Torrens is the perfect Canada Day Weekend podcast guest:
As a producer, he is behind two new Canadian TV comedies: Pretty Blind, starring Jennie Bovard as a legally …
Pat Ferns sees The Big Picture
In the digital age, the question is not only which tools are still available to support Canadian content production but which ones are still relevant. One with an insider's perspective…
Sultan of sitcoms Chuck Lorre
By far, the biggest name in TV sitcoms this century has been Chuck Lorre.
This June, when I saw that he was going to be a keynote speaker at the Banff World Media Festival, I thought wh…
Matlock's TikTok dance master Jason Ritter
Jason Ritter is my guest this week on brioux.tv: the podcast. I spoke with the 45-year-old actor recently at the Corus Entertainment Upfront in Toronto. Ritter is so thrilled to be on …
Dave Thomas stands with Ukraine
This 200th episode of brioux.tv: the podcast features a SCTV original who remains one of my favourite people to interview -- Dave Thomas. On this, our third podcast conversation, Thomas…
Breakfast Television's Tim Bolen
People who work television's morning shift could be forgiven for being a tad grumpy. That's never the case with Tim Bolen, who recently made the leap from co-hosting Morning Live on Ham…
Back to school with Andrew Barnsley
My guest this episode is an executive producer who helped guide Schitt’s Creek to a canoe full of Emmy and CSA awards. He’s currently one of the executive producers on another wonderful…
Tripping the Muskokas with Mitch Azaria
Bummed your invitation to Martin Short's cottage in the Muskokas was evidently lost in the mail? Save yourself the long drive and listen to this week's episode of brioux.tv: the podcast…
Jay Leno comes to Canada
Jay Leno is Jay-walking his way back to Canada. The former Tonight Show host, who turns 75 in May, will join fellow late night rival Arsenio Hall as comedy headliners May 2 at Casino Ra…
Fabulous Kenny Robinson
People of Comedy: Celebrating 30 Years of the Nubian Show starts streaming April 9 on Crave. It features this week's guest on brioux.tv: the podcast and one of the true iron men of the …
When Hope Calls stars Cindy Busby & Christopher Russell
These days it is not unusual for fans to wait over a year for a second season of their favourite series. But five years??
That is the situation for When Hope Calls, the spinoff to the po…
Look who's turning 70 -- Gumby!
For this episode we go back into the vault for an interview conducted ten years ago with Joe Clokey. He was the son of the man who created and animated Gumby, the most bendable childre…
Ontario Place documentarian Ali Weinstein
Ali Weinstein is the writer/producer/director behind "Your Tomorrow," a look at Ontario Place the summer before it was shut down after 52 years. For over five decades a 155-acre Toronto…
Malcolm McDowell returns
Podcasts were invented for guests such as Malcolm McDowell. He is a smart, funny, generous man and as terrific as ever as Pop on CBC's Son of a Critch.
This conversation took place last …
Jennifer Whalen & Meredith MacNeill's Small Achievable Goals
Two of the four Baroness Von Sketch Show players, Jennifer Whalen and Meredith MacNeill, are back with a new CBC series -- and it's a period piece!
The series is called Small Achievable…